[ola] Re: Transitions!
- From: Nanosh Lucas <nanoshlucas@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 06:36:38 -0800
That's just so students can track what conversations they've had with each
person in the class - the goal of that is so that each student gets to talk
with all students in the class.
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> On Jan 10, 2014, at 4:14 AM, Calysta Phillips <cphillips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Nanosh-- what's the correlation between the names on the left side and
> conversation topics on the right? Why not just a list of conversation topics?
> Gracias.
>
>
>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Nanosh Lucas
>> <nanosh.lucas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I might have seen this from another person, but I set up a table with the
>> names of my students down the left side, then I put conversation topics.
>> Each topic represents a 3min conversation. When there is a lull, I’m using
>> this to get students to talk to one another about something. Got pretty
>> decent feedback from it today. Works well in a 2nd-year class.
>>
>> I also got a book called “The Ultimate Icebreaker & Teambuilder Guide” by
>> John Tucker at a leadership conference this weekend. That has some fun stuff
>> for keeping people active engaged.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Nanosh
>>
>>> On Nov 10, 2013, at 5:55 AM, Ruth Whalen Crockett <rwhalen@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> One thing I learned from Helena Curtain at the MAFLA conference was to have
>>> students move to different partners by constantly asking them a question. I
>>> know I also learned this with you all, but learning things for the fourth
>>> or fifth time often works. Here is what I mean:
>>>
>>> Students are responding to a prompt. It is time to move. “The student with
>>> the shortest hair move clockwise to the next partner.”
>>> Another prompts for speaking…time to move. “The student who lives closest
>>> to school move clockwise to the next partner.”
>>> Another prompt for speaking, maybe a physical activity, etc….time to move,
>>> “The student who can jump the highest move to the next partner.”
>>>
>>> There are probably a billion versions of this.
>>>
>>> Another thing that I started using were color cards from Home Depot. I
>>> think I wrote about this in the past. Using color cards that you pick up
>>> for free when trying to decide on paint colors, give students a card. Have
>>> them pair up with people that are their same color. Then when shifting
>>> groups have them look for an opposite color hue, or a color that
>>> compliments theirs, etc.
>>>
>>> I know I’m talking more about pairing than transitions. I think in many
>>> ways they are one in the same. I often hear teachers talking about how to
>>> pair up kids and who can work with who. I think what is essential here is
>>> that groups are fluid and that the expectation is that kids work with
>>> everyone. This is huge in community building.
>>>
>>> One final thing, I can’t remember if I wrote about this before…geez the
>>> fall has been a long one. Pan Tostado has become a really fun game in my
>>> classes and it might serve as a transition between activities. You yell
>>> out “Pan Tostado” and point to a student. That student is the toast and the
>>> two people on either sides of that students are the toaster. They
>>> physically form a toaster around the toast and the toast jumps. Then you
>>> say, Elefante! And again you point to a student. This student is the trunk
>>> and the two students next to that student are the ears. They make a loud
>>> sound together. In my upper level class I asked the students to come up
>>> with other versions. The versions are:
>>> Flamingo
>>> Extra-Terrestrial (person in the middle is ET, students on sides are extra
>>> legs, arms, etc)
>>> Whacka-mole
>>> Lumberjack (person in the middle is the tree, other two are sawing the tree
>>> down)
>>> Zen Diagram (my personal favorite!, this is when two students make circles
>>> with their arms and the person in the middle puts their head in the
>>> intersecting circles).
>>>
>>> Annie, thanks for getting me thinking about what I’m finding challenging
>>> and the things that I’m also making progress on.
>>>
>>> Ruthie
>>>
>>> From: ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
>>> Of Annie Tyner
>>> Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 2:45 AM
>>> To: ola crew
>>> Subject: [ola] Transitions!
>>>
>>> Hey crew!
>>>
>>> I feel like I am doing the same transitions over and over again in my
>>> class! My creative juices just aren't flowin'! Can you help me out?
>>> Thanks!!! I hope you are all doing wonderful!!
>>>
>>> Annie
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